What is Hyatt House Scottsdale/Old Town?
It’s the hotel for people who need more than a room. Hyatt House Scottsdale/Old Town has 164 suites, all one- or two-bedroom, every one with a full kitchen and a separate living room. It’s on Drinkwater Boulevard at the northeast edge of Old Town, where the Civic Center, Scottsdale Fashion Square and the Stetson Drive bar blocks are all within walking distance.
It opened on October 26, 1998, as a Summerfield Suites by Wyndham, run by the Wichita company LodgeWorks. From the start the pitch was long stays: one- and two-bedroom suites with kitchens, a daily hot breakfast and a free grocery-delivery service. Hyatt bought the Summerfield brand in 2006, called it Hyatt Summerfield Suites, and in 2012 renamed it Hyatt House. The suites were renovated in 2019.
Hot breakfast is still included, there’s an outdoor pool and hot tub, and the H Bar serves drinks and small plates in the evening. Pets are allowed for a fee.
Who it’s for: families who want a door between the kids and the adults, two couples splitting a two-bedroom, people in town for a month of work or a medical stay, and spring-training fans who would rather cook some meals than eat out every night. Who should look elsewhere: anyone who wants a resort pool scene or a hotel restaurant worth dressing up for. The appeal is space, a kitchen and Old Town on foot.
How to do Hyatt House right
Book the two-bedroom. It’s the best value in the building: two bedrooms with their own bathrooms around a shared kitchen and living room. For a family or two couples it usually costs less than two separate rooms elsewhere in Old Town. In February and March they go first.
Shop once, eat in sometimes. With breakfast included and a full kitchen, you only need to buy lunch and dinner, and you don’t need to buy all of those either. Make one grocery run on arrival. Then cook on the nights you’d rather not wait for a table, and spend the money you save on one good Old Town dinner, such as CALA at Senna House, a short walk northeast.
Walk everywhere you can. The Civic Center, the Scottsdale Public Library and the restaurants of the old core are a few minutes south. Fashion Square is about half a mile west. Scottsdale Stadium, the Giants’ spring home, is roughly two-thirds of a mile away. In March the walk is faster than finding parking.
Plan around the weekend noise. The hotel is close to the bar district. Most nights that’s convenient. On big weekends, such as spring break and the WM Phoenix Open, late-night street noise carries. Ask for a quieter suite if you’re sensitive to it.
Use it as a long-stay base. Monthly snowbirds, traveling nurses and people with family at nearby hospitals use this building the way it was designed: a small apartment with housekeeping, a pool and breakfast in the middle of town.
Extended stay comes to downtown
Scottsdale’s hotel story is mostly told through resorts: the Camelback corridor classics, the casita colonies, the golf-course giants. The Summerfield Suites that opened here in 1998 was a different kind of hotel, a building of small apartments with kitchens aimed at business travelers on long assignments and families between houses. LodgeWorks owned and ran it alongside eight other Summerfield Suites as a Wyndham franchisee, and an early press release for the Scottsdale hotel promised grocery delivery, a 24-hour convenience shop and a weeknight evening social hour.
It opened in the same burst of downtown hotel building as the AmeriSuites around the corner (now Hyatt Place) and the Hilton Garden Inn on Indian School Road. That cluster formed between the Civic Center and Fashion Square at the end of the 1990s, as the mall expanded and the city finished its Goldwater and Drinkwater one-way pair to move through traffic around Old Town. The hotel’s street is named for Herb Drinkwater, the mayor from 1980 to 1996, who died in December 1997. It had been Civic Center Boulevard before the city renamed it after him.
Ownership of the brand changed twice in the next decade. Hyatt bought the Summerfield Suites brand and franchise system in January 2006 from partnerships of Blackstone, the Gencom Group and Lehman Brothers. It added its own name and, in 2012, folded Hyatt Summerfield Suites and the Hotel Sierra chain into one new extended-stay brand, Hyatt House. The Drinkwater Boulevard hotel kept its suites and changed its sign.
Meanwhile its neighborhood changed. In 1998 the bar blocks to the south were a few taverns and a live-music bar. By the 2010s, they were a nightlife district, and the 2008 W Scottsdale had made Old Town a party destination. The Civic Center hotel on the other side of Drinkwater went through at least six names before becoming Hotel Solaya in 2026. The Hyatt House stayed the same thing: a place with a kitchen and a second bedroom for people who need to stay a while. In a downtown that keeps reinventing itself, that consistency is worth something.